The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312429249)

Economics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.

Author: Rajeev Charles Patel
ISBN-10: 031242924X
ISBN-13: 9780312429249
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.37w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2009 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2009
Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 90
Choice 01/01/2011

About the Author

Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved, is an activist and academic who has been hailed as a visionary for his prescience about the food crisis. Raj has worked for the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and has protested against them on four continents. He is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First.